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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

: The inspiration and design of this handbag is an amalgamation of a shape and symbol, the design seeks to reflect modern and luxurious lifestyle in a simple and direct manner of Balance. Thereby, this bag is epitomizes the minimalist fashion with no fanciful metal accessories.

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

: The main focus for this design is to blend the shape and infinity symbol to become a handbag, yet not spoil the proportion of handbag.

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

: I will keep pushing this award winning design order. Will also try to find local media for featuring it.

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

: I was spend about 1.5 month for design this particular concept.

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

: This design is to unlock my creativity and I was challenge myself in designing a very different shape of bag that didn't seen in market.

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

: I have start produce the handbag, I intend to produce it myself.

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

: Recent year, handbag design is too much useless metal elements is added and I felt it was destroy the principle of design. I decide to brief myself to design this particular work.

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

: No, the design is done by me alone.

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

: Female is the target customer.

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

: The overall shape of this handbag and the handle design is set apart from other.

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

: The name of handbag was "Lemniscate", which is also infinity symbo, it's a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity.

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

: the most unique aspect of this handbag was a twist handle, this was a very unique part and need some tricks to penetrate when produce the final product.

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

: the handbag design is done it by myself with no help from others.

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

: The role of technology is quite important, especially when we develop the prototype with 3d software.

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

: The design is not much influenced by data or analytical research.

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

: The challenges during designing is to blend a triangle shape and infinity symbol. When I doing prototyping, handle part is another challenge.

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

: I have submit my design to an international design competition every year, I use the competition as a tools to evaluate my design.

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

: I have learn how to manage the research development well than previous when I was designing this work, and also learn more in test or prototyping.

DI: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?

: No, overall is covered.